The Mounties said Said Namouh was arrested on conspiracy charges Wednesday morning in Maskinonge, Que., northeast of Montreal.
RCMP confirmed what Austrian officials said earlier today -- that the Quebec man was the fourth suspect in connection with an online threat against Austria and Germany.
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"The allegations are that these individuals were al Qaeda sympathizers," Canada's Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day told CTV News on Thursday.
"And that the things that they were planning, both with explosives and other means, the allegation is that this could have led to a tragic incident. We congratulate our intelligence and security forces for being able to move quickly along with other agencies to stop this from happening."
Apparently, silently, behind the scenes, authorities are detecting and preventing many terrorist plots. I've seen a lot of it, and much of it goes relatively unreported in the MSM, receiving coverage instead on non-state-apparatus counterterrorism intelligence websites, etc.
I wonder if the enemy is being lulled into a false sense of security, too, owing to the ease with which they can move around, come and go, even be released when caught in what would reasonably be considered terror-related activity, including with physical evidence of terrorist orientation.
I think that authorities let low-level terrorists go so that they can place them under surveillance in the hopes that they'll lead to others like them, sleeper cells, leaders, etc.
Maybe they even agree to cooperate and help authorities apprehend others like them. It's all part of the game of fighting a cold war against an enemy whose strike timing is up in the air.
I think that even terrorists can't trust one another. Hey, terrorists, what do you think of that? Which of you is a mole, a double agent, an apostate, a collaborator with the Infidels? How do you know? Can you know? That's right; you sweat and get paranoid... and screw up.
By the way, for those who are unaware, Montreal is the one city with the greatest number of sleeper agents in all of North America.
